Improved snap-hook



i @uiten faire @sind @ffice M. F. MITCHEL AND W. B. CHAPMAN, OF WAUKAU,WISCONSIN.` Letters Patent No. 67,789, dated August 13, 186i.

HIIPROVEDl SNAP-HOOK.

'ro ALLA WHoM 1T MAY ooNeERN:

Be itknown that we, M. F. MITCHEL and W. B. CHAR-MAN, of Wanken, in thecounty of Winnebago, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new andimproved Snap-Hook, and that the following, description, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to,forms a full and exact specication of the sanne, wherein we have setforth the nature and principles of our said improvements, by which ourinvention may be distinguished from al1 others of a similar class,together with suclrparts as We claim and desire to have secured to 11sby Letters Patent. v

The snap-hook embraced by the present invention is so constructed as tobe most durable and substantial, most convenient and serviceable. Intheaccompanying plate of drawings, our improved snap-hook isi1lustratedl Figure 1 being a side view of the snap-hook, and

` Figure 2 a central section taken in the plane of the line m a', fig.l. A, in the'drawings, represents the snap-hook, formed of a hook shapeat one` end, B, and at the other with an eye or loop, C. D, a jaw,extending across the opening to the hook B, against the extreme endmE ofwhich it comes to a seat or rest at one end, while at the other it ispivoted to the main portion i' the hook near its :1oop-C. Y This aruiorjaw D rests against a spring, F, fixed in the arm B, and serves toclose the hook, forming the snap, as is obvions without any furtherexplanation.

1' Having thus described our invention, We claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters `Patent- `A spring or snap-hook, constructedsubstantially as described.

M. F. MITCHEL,

W. B. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses l .EDWARD MANNING, LUTHER M. PARSONS.

